Island fossil ungulates: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Hippopothamus creutzburgi
early Pleistocene
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus creticus (Bate 1907)
early Pleistocene
Elephas creutzburgi (Kuss 1965)
recombined as Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi
late Pleistocene
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus rethymnensis (Kuss 1975)
original and current combination Candiacervus rethymnensis
late Pleistocene
recombined as Candiacervus major
late Pleistocene
Praemegaceros cretensis
late Pleistocene
Praemegaceros ropalophorus
late Pleistocene
Cervus dorothoensis
late Pleistocene
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Crete
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 24.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 24.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Collection methods:survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:94325
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:L. White
Modifier:L. White
Created:2010-02-16 15:14:43 Last modified:2010-02-16 17:46:59
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-16 15:14:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32076. P. Raia and S. Meiri. 2006. The Island Rule in Large Mammals: Paleontology Meets Ecology. Evolution 60(8):1731-1742 [M. Uhen/L. White]